Video Converting

[symp]

I have always converted my movies into Divx,
I use to be able to burn them fine with windows movie maker,
I dont know if it was some update or what but I lost the ability to do that.

Corel X3 is the only program I have that will even load the divx movies,
and it let me convert it into a normal format.

Original Divx Movie size . 1.2gb
Converted file Size . 165gb

obvisouly something tragix has happen here, as I choose defaut options to test it out.
same resolution, etc etc...

Movie plays fine in Windows media player, searches fine.. cant beleive it's 165gb and I can scroll through it.
Still tho, this presents some problems when trying to burn it to DVD..

any suggestions on formats, or something to fix this problem..

thanks.

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

This is the first post that you thought did not show up. I deleted your other, duplicate post. The web board is setup so that the first few posts must be approved by a moderator.

Whoa, a DivX file that size... What format did you convert it to? What is the properties of that 165 gig file? With the file in the timeline, right-click on it, select properties and post them please.

Just some thoughts on what you will need to do to work with that file. The first and foremost is cut it up to smaller, more manageable clips. You stated that you could burn them fine in Windows Movie Maker? Was this a data disc? Since it is a DivX, you would need to burn a data DVD and then play it on a DivX certified player. The 165 gig file will not fit on any current disc media, and not knowing what format that is, I can not really advise what you can convert it to, so as not to take a huge quality hit.

[Ken Berry]

I personally am also a little surprised that it played with Windows Movie Maker... I had no idea that this was compatible with DivX/XVid... So I too will look forward to seeing the exact properties of the original video. I also wonder, though, if the GB was supposed to be MB...

[symp]

The file was Windows Avi that was 165gb,
I deleted it tho,
I also tried Mpeg,
which turned out to be 4.4gb.

Is it went 4x then original.
I deleted that one too, without seeing if it played.

Running another now, fingers crossed..
this time WMV at 720p standard settings 16:9.

previsouly all settings where default 720p settings aswell, as I picked them and not made them.

[symp]

OK,
still a very large file, hope fully this can show you what i'm doing wrong?? (img below)
I'm going to try burning it to a dvd, hopefully it's not to bg after windows re-encodes it for burning.




*edit*
Latest news ..
Tried just making the DVD from Corel,
both files are to big for the disk, says it needs 5.6gb of 4.4gb available.
So when it encodes for the DVD I get this,
Original divx file = 800mb / 1.2gb over dvd
Converted wmv = 2.8gbs / 1.2gb over dvd

Dont know what to do now, since Corel DVD factory inital solved my problems, or so I thought, by being able to encode the divx format.
It just got lost when it turned the 800mb divx file into a 5.6gb encode for the dvd,
strange how also the wmv file at inital 2.8gb encoded to the same 5.6gb as well.

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Can we go back to your original post, you said
“I have always converted my movies into DivX,”

I ask why?

To create / burn a DVD you need a Mpeg2 file.
This is the format that is burned to a standard DVD.

Before you converted to DivX what type of video file did you have?
Can you give details of your original video file?

Knowing this, we should be able to advise what you should be converting to……...

[Ken Berry]

EDIT: I wrote the following while Trevor was writing his post above. However, I will let this stand as it is, even though it repeats some of what Trevor has already said.

I think that some wires are getting crossed here! Video Studio can only make *video* DVDs, not data DVDs which, as Ron has said, is the normal way you burn DivX movies to a DVD. These data DVDs with DivX on them can then be recognised and played by most stand-alone DVD players these days.

But a *video* DVD MUST, by international standard, use mpeg-2 with certain properties. So if indeed -- as I now think you are -- you are trying to burn a video DVD, then there is simply no point in converting your DivX to any other format but mpeg-2.

Moreover, your movie is just over 90 minutes long. But Video Studio default settings for DVDs is to use a bitrate of 8000 kbps. This will only allow about 60 minutes of video to fit onto a single layer DVD, and that is why I think you are getting the message you are. Using 8000 kbps on your project would require more space than exists on a single layer DVD.

So what to do? You have to produce an mpeg-2 with a lower bitrate. So instead of going to Share > Create Video File > DVD, choose Custom > Options instead. Then in the compression tab, you lower the bitrate to 6000. This will still give good quality, but will allow 90 minutes of video to be burned. If you use either Dolby or mpeg layer two audio, that will allow a few minutes more of video to be burned, which might be handy given that your project is a bit over 90 minutes.

Then when you produce your new mpeg-2, it should be around 4.3 GB or less, and it will fit on a single layer DVD.